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Photography by Edward C. Robison III.
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Photography by Edward C. Robison III.

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Artist (1856 - 1933)
Date1887
MediumOil on canvas
Dimensions9 1/4 x 7 1/4 in. (23.5 x 18.4 cm)
Framed: 15 1/2 × 13 1/8 × 1 5/8 in.
ClassificationsPainting
Credit LineCrystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas, 2010.91
Signedu.r.: J. Haberle. 1887. / New Haven.CT
Accession number 2010.91
On View
Not on view
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ProvenanceThomas George Shaughnessy [1853-1923], Montreal, Canada, until 1923; by descent in the family until 2005; (Thomas Colville Fine Art, New Haven, CT); purchased by a private foundation for Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, AR, 2005
Label TextCurrency was a popular subject of tromp l’oeil (“to fool the eye”) paintings because it lent itself to fooling the viewer. John Haberle rendered bills and coins so convincingly, the United States Secret Service suspected him of counterfeiting money and ordered him to stop producing these paintings.

El dinero fue un tema popular en pinturas de trompe l’oeil (trampantojo) pues se prestaba a engañar al espectador. John Haberle recreó los billetes y las monedas tan convincentemente, que el Servicio Secreto de los Estados Unidos sospechó que estaba falsificando dinero y le ordenó que dejara de producir estas pinturas.
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